Today was the first day of our bike tour through Puglia. We met our Backroads group at the Bari train station at 11:00 this morning and, after a short shuttle ride to Masseria Torre Catena, had a wonderful lunch of bruschetta, cheeses, farro, roasted vegetables and potatoes, salad, pizza, and a number of other things that I can't recall the name of. No matter its name, it was all delicious, however! After getting fitted for our bikes and reviewing the day's route, we set out on our short afternoon ride from Torre Catena to Polignano and then on to Conversano, a total of 21.5 km (13.3 miles) of fairly flat terrain. I can tell already this countryside is going to be so much prettier than Sicily, as you can see from some of the pictures below.
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| Fields of Lettuce and Radichio |
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| Entrance to Masseria Torre Catena |
Polignano is a small seaside town where we stopped for a gelato (as if we were hungry after that delicious lunch!) and made a quick tour of the Old Town. From there we rode about 3.5 km along the sea to the next town, San Vito. Once we left San Vito we headed inland to Conversano. It looks like our routes for the next two days will be all inland country and then we should be riding along the seaside again.
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| Two Views of Polignano a Mare |
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